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Monday, June 28th, 2010
This is the third part of a post that starts here, and continues here.
In my “standard” tech class, we continued to develop the design of our studio projects from the fall semester. I have to say this was one of the more eye-opening experiences I’ve had at the SoA, which ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
This post starts here.
One of the more unusual classes was a tech elective with Doug Garafolo, in which we were supposed to design and build a prototype of a freely selected object that somehow related to architecture. I came up with a modular shelving unit that can in theory be ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
This post comes to you in three more-or-less easily digestible bits, or as one of my professors would put it, easy pieces (choke, sputter). Part two is here, and three here.
I had a lot to say at the end of the semester, but unfortunately I had too much to do ...
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Thursday's shoot-out/debate between Jeff Kipnis and our own Bob Somol brought an interesting follow-up to my rant about the superficiality of the vision of architecture advanced at UIC. Both of the supposed duelists stood on the side of architecture's political engagement through form, rather than the "leftist" and "functional" attitude ...
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
I'm beginning to understand why I haven't been seeing eye-to-eye with most of the UIC faculty - they're mainly concerned with finding new forms and new ways of generating form, while I'm interested more in the social engineering side of architecture.
This really came to the forefront at yesterday's debate between ...
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